Evolutionary Syntax
In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a specific framework for its study, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax, typology, neuroscience, and genetics. The author...
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| description | In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a specific framework for its study, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax, typology, neuroscience, and genetics. The author pursues an internal reconstruction of the stages of grammar based on the syntactic theory associated with Chomskyan Minimalism and arrives at specific, testable hypotheses, which are then corroborated by an abundance of theoretically analysed 'living fossils' drawn from a variety of languages. Her approach demonstrates that these fossil structures do not just coexist alongside more modern structures, but are in fact built into the very foundation of more complex structures, leading to quirks and complexities that are suggestive of a gradualist evolutionary scenario. By reconstructing a particular path along which syntax evolved, Evolutionary Syntax sheds light on the crucial properties of language design itself, as well as on the major parameters of crosslinguistic variation. As a result, this reconstruction can be meaningfully correlated with both the hominin timeline and the ever-growing body of genetic evidence that is available. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1427982024-08-09T04:05:16Z Evolutionary Syntax Progovac, Ljiljana evolution of syntax/grammar, gradualist evolution, natural selection, theoretical syntax, Chomskyan Minimalism, internal reconstruction, crosslinguistic variation, genetics, (living) fossils, hominin timeline thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSX Human biology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology In this book, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a gradualist, adaptationist approach to the evolution of syntax, subject to natural selection. She provides a specific framework for its study, combining the fields of evolutionary biology, theoretical syntax, typology, neuroscience, and genetics. The author pursues an internal reconstruction of the stages of grammar based on the syntactic theory associated with Chomskyan Minimalism and arrives at specific, testable hypotheses, which are then corroborated by an abundance of theoretically analysed 'living fossils' drawn from a variety of languages. Her approach demonstrates that these fossil structures do not just coexist alongside more modern structures, but are in fact built into the very foundation of more complex structures, leading to quirks and complexities that are suggestive of a gradualist evolutionary scenario. By reconstructing a particular path along which syntax evolved, Evolutionary Syntax sheds light on the crucial properties of language design itself, as well as on the major parameters of crosslinguistic variation. As a result, this reconstruction can be meaningfully correlated with both the hominin timeline and the ever-growing body of genetic evidence that is available. 2024-08-09T04:05:15Z 2024-08-09T04:05:15Z 2024-08-08T07:35:43Z 2015 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92628 9780198736547 9780198736554 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142798 eng Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92628/1/9780191056185_WEB%20%281%29.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198736547.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198736547.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 73ab7880-607d-40a2-b3df-6b378535b01e e2ee76d0-068c-4dde-ad41-66024722648d 9780198736547 9780198736554 280 Oxford Wayne State University WSU 10.13039/100006710 open access |
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